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Microsoft Principal Solution Sales Specialist - Azure Infra 
Netherlands, North Holland 
376979940

09.07.2024

The Impact You’ll Be Making

You possess a high EQ with executive presence, able to engage with senior decision makers to uncover digital transformation initiatives, and a passion for learning how Azure cloud services can deliver digital transformation. You will develop and maintain an Azure Cloud migration and modernization expertise, able to identify projects, build a compelling business case, and drive the consumption project to production.

You will build and maintain relationships with customers, influence long-term strategic direction and act as a trusted advisor driving engagement at the CXO level with business and technology decision makers. You will help customers evaluate their cloud strategy, determine approaches to application and data migration and modernization, and recommend solutions that meet their requirements. You will remove roadblocks to deployment and drive customer satisfaction.

Qualifications
  • Previous business leadership and people management experience.
  • Please note that this is an individual contributor role which requires a leadership mindset and horizontal cross-functional team management experience.
  • Substantial experience in technology-related sales or account management experience.
  • Industry experience in Oil & Gas preferred but not mandatory.
Responsibilities

Primary accountabilities for this role include

  • 30% of your time will be spent with customers developing new Azure migration and modernization consumption engagements which align to the customer’s technical and business strategy.
  • You will work with partners and others at Microsoft, as well as use our core tools and targeted account lists to identify and engage prioritized customers. You will be required to be disciplined in business-management, adaptable to a culture of accountability and build a strong and active business network.
  • 60% of your time will be spent on being the key technical leader with an outstanding Cloud Economic knowledge, trusted advisor and influencer in shaping customer decisions to commit and adopt Microsoft Azure and Infrastructure solutions.
  • You will win the customers’ technical and business decision for consumption projects and usage scenarios through tailored messaging, providing guidance on cost saving benefits like AHB (For Windows and Linux), technical discussions, and aligning the appropriate solutions partners, programs and resources to guide them in decision making and consumption plans.
  • You will lead standard technical demonstrations of Azure solutions to explain and prove the capabilities of Microsoft Azure relative to the customers business and technical objectives. These efforts will accrue to developing with your Cloud Solution Architect counterpart the minimum viable product (MVP) solutions which will accelerate deployment to Azure with support of other technical roles including Azure Partners.
  • 10% of your time will be spent on influencing the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure go-to-market strategies by providing feedback to sales, marketing, and engineering on current and future product requirements and sales blockers. You will be recognized for sharing, learning and driving work that results in business impact for customers, partners and Microsoft.
  • We encourage thought leadership, and we encourage all our employees to continuously maintain and enhance their technical, business value, sales, professional skills and competitive readiness. You will therefore be required to attain and maintain required certifications.